Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies

The Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, presented to scholarly work that address "issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, and oriented toward academia, libraries, cultural professionals, and the more academic reader."^[1] Most works are published by university presses.^[1]

Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies
Awarded for	Literary award
Sponsored by	Lambda Literary Foundation
Date	Annual
Website	lambdaliterary.org/awards

Recipients

Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies Recipients

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2002	Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price	Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court	Winner	[2]
	Gay Wachman	Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties	Finalist	[2]
	Suzanna Danuta Walters	All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America
	William J. Mann	Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
	Ricardo J. Brown and William Reichard (editors)	The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s
2003	Neil Miller	Sex-Crime Panic	Winner	[3][4]
	Craig Rimmerman	From Identity to Politics	Finalist	[4]
	Colm Tóibín	Love in a Dark Time
	Ruth Vanita (editor)	Queering India
	David Nimmons	Soul Beneath the Skin
2004	Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise (editors)	Time on Two Crosses	Winner	[5]
	Wayne Besen	Anything But Straight	Finalist	[5]
	Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky	Love in the Time of HIV
	James McCourt	Queer Street
	Mack Friedman	Strapped for Cash
2005	Elisabeth Kirtsoglou	For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town	Winner	[6]
	Andrea Barnet	All-Night Party	Finalist	[6]
	Will Fellows	{A Passion to Preserve
	Abigail Garner	Families Like Mine
	Evan Wolfson	Why Marriage Matters
2006	Susan Ackerman	When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David	Winner	[7]
	Jennifer Kelly	Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause	Finalist	[7]
	Dwight A. McBride	Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch
	Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove (editors)	Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs And the Internet
	Ruth Vanita	Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West
2007	Horace Griffin	Their Own Receive Them Not	Winner	[8]
	Robert McRuer	Crip Theory	Finalist	[8]
	Kathryn Stockton	Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
	Carellin Brooks	Every Inch A Man: Phallic Possession, etc.
	David Eisenbach	Gay Power: An American Revolution
2008	Sharon Marcus	Between Women	Winner	[9][10]
	Bertram Cohler	Writing Desire	Finalist	[9]
	Pagan Kennedy	The First Man-Made Man
	Mark Padilla	Caribbean Pleasure Industry
	Robert Reid-Pharr	Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, & the Black American Intellectual
2009	Regina Kunzel	Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality	Winner	[11]
	Michelle Ann Abate	Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History	Finalist	[11]
	Amin Ghaziani	The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington
	Kevin P. Murphy	Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform
	Linda Williams	Screening Sex
2010	Margot Canaday	The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America	Winner	[12]
	Armando Maggi	The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade	Finalist	[12]
	Julie Abraham	Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities
	Deborah B. Gould	Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS
	Kathryn Bond Stockton	The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
2011	Scott Herring	Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism	Winner	[13]
	Gayle Salamon	Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
	Fran Martin	Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary	Finalist	[14]
	Deborah Cohler	Citizen Invert Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
	Rafael de la Dehesa	Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies
2012	Lisa L. Moore	Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes	Winner	[15][16]
	Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith (editors)	Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex	Finalist
	Chandan Reddy	Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State
	Margot Weiss	Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
	Jafari S. Allen	¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
2013	Ramón H. Rivera-Servera	Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics	Winner	[17]
	Louis-Georges Tin	The Invention of Heterosexual Culture	Finalist	[18]
	Ernesto Javier Martínez	On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
	Ashley Currier	Out of Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
	Bernadette C. Barton	Pray the Gay Away The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays
	Brenna M. Munro	South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom
	Sara Warner	Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure
	Ann Cvetkovich	Depression: A Public Feeling
	Tracy Baim	Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America
	David M. Halperin	How To Be Gay
2014	Christina B. Hanhardt	Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence	Winner	[19][20][21]
	Marlon M. Bailey	Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit	Finalist	[21]
	Victoria Hesford	Feeling Women’s Liberation
	Colin R. Johnson	Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
	Lisa Henderson	Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production
	Susana Pena	Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami
	Afsaneh Najmabadi	Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
	Lucetta Yip Lo Kam	Shanghai Lalas
	Peter M. Coviello	Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely
	Isaac West	Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law		[21][22]
2015	Vincent Woodard, Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride (editors)	Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture	Winner	[23]
	Noelle M. Stout	After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba	Finalist	[24]
	Rachel Hope Cleves	Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
	Marcia Ochoa	Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
	Lisa Tatonetti	The Queerness of Native American Literature
	Juana María Rodríguez	Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings
	Susan S. Lanser	The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic
	Bobby Benedicto	Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene
2016	Hiram Pérez	A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire	Winner	[25]
	Clare Sears	Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco	Finalist	[26]
	L.H. Stallings	Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
	Aaron Goodfellow	Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship
	Madhavi Menon	Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism
	Jane Ward	Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
	Petrus Liu	Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
	Valerie Traub	Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
2017	Jennifer Tyburczy	Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display	Winner	[27]
	Qwo-Li Driskill	Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit Memory	Finalist	[28]
	Gregory Woods	Homintern
	Andrew Jolivette	Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community
	Jonathan Goldberg	Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
	Kevin Mumford	Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
	Omar G. Encarnación	Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution
	Timothy Stewart-Winter	Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
2018	Trevor Hoppe	Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness	Winner	[29][30]
	Alfredo Mirandé	Behind the Mask	Finalist	[31]
	Mari Ruti	The Ethics of Opting Out
	Emily Hobson	Lavender and Red
	Jaclyn Pryor	Time Slips
	Ashley T. Shelden	Unmaking Love
	David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe	The War on Sex
	Julio Capó	Welcome to Fairyland
2019	William T. Hoston	Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston	Winner	[32]
	E. Patrick Johnson	Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History	Finalist
	Lyndon K. Gill	Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
	Myrl Beam	Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics
	Keridwen N. Luis	Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States
	Andrew Billings and Leigh Moscowitz	Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports
	T. Jackie Cuevas	Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
	Anne Balay	Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
2020	Emily L. Thuma	All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence	Winner	[33][34][35][36]
	Robb Hernández	Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde	Finalist	[37][38][39]
	Elizabeth Freeman	Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century		[38][39]
	Kara Keeling	Queer Times, Black Futures		[37][38][39]
	Roberto Strongman	Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and Vodou		[38][39]
	Dana Seitler	Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction
	R.L. Cagle	Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic
	Jian Neo Chen	Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement
2021	Zakiyyah Iman Jackson	Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World	Winner	[40][37][41]
	Cait McKinney	Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies	Finalist	[42]
	José Esteban Muñoz	The Sense of Brown
	Janet Jakobsen	The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics		[42][37]
	Jane Ward	The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
2022	Anna Lvovsky	Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall	Winner	[43]
	Gila Ashtor	Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia	Finalist	[44]
	C. Winter Han	Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire
	Leah DeVun	The Shape of Sex
	Howard Chiang	Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific
2023	Darieck Scott	Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics	Winner	[45]
	Mairead Sullivan	Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer	Finalist	[46]
	Marlon B. Ross	Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness
	Vivian L. Huang	Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability
	Jafari S. Allen	There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life
2024	Erin L. Durban	The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti	Winner	[47]
	Jennifer Dominique Jones	Ambivalent Af inities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II	Finalist	[48]
	Christoph Hanssmann	Care without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine
	Margot Canaday	Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
	Travis S. K. Kong	Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China

See also

• List of LGBTQ literary awards